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they need to ask themselves, shouldn't it be relevant who got the most important foreign- policy issue right and who got a wrong and how that will bear out their decision to vote. tavis: barack obama will be sworn in. the next four years will determine the legacy that president obama will leave behind. regardless of how he is judged in office, his meteoric rise in american politics has been one of the most unlikely and transformative journeys in american history. that is our show for tonight. we'll speak to prince. a few memorable nights with the musical icon. good night from los angeles. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with prince, some memorable appearances over the years. that is next time. we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a
they need to ask themselves, shouldn't it be relevant who got the most important foreign- policy issue right and who got a wrong and how that will bear out their decision to vote. tavis: barack obama will be sworn in. the next four years will determine the legacy that president obama will leave behind. regardless of how he is judged in office, his meteoric rise in american politics has been one of the most unlikely and transformative journeys in american history. that is our show for tonight....
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. >> foreign policy is actually not foreign. >> america has faced great hardship before and each time we have risen to the challenge. >> the ultimate test is to move our society from where it is to where it has never been. >> join us as we explore today's most critical global issues. join us for great decisions. >> great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, inspiring americans to learn more about the world. sponsorship of great decisions is provided by credit suisse, eni, the hurford foundation, and pricewaterhousecoopers llp. >> coming up next, the intervention calculation. (instrumental music) >> historically the u.s. leaned heavily on strategic interventions to help counter the influence of communism. >> the reagan doctrine was a notion that we would support those that sought to oppose soviet domination. >> during the cold war there was a polarized world - there was the soviet union, there was the united states and a lot of our interventions were used to block the advance of communism, and so very ideological basis for our, our interventions. >> and the u.s. has
. >> foreign policy is actually not foreign. >> america has faced great hardship before and each time we have risen to the challenge. >> the ultimate test is to move our society from where it is to where it has never been. >> join us as we explore today's most critical global issues. join us for great decisions. >> great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, inspiring americans to learn more about the world. sponsorship of great decisions is...
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of the country and at least in its diplomacy is not a foreign policy. >> yes? >> okay, i will comment. >> all right, thank you so much. thank you for this interesting talk. with the presence of this in the energy industry, are we concerned that over the long-term we have sought diversity in the economy that we have become so dependent upon, particularly that of natural gas. and so much that it seems to be changing in the energy industry with unconditional sources of energy becoming more fruitful. are we concerned that the recent success in excluding those natural resources might become less of this? >> there is a rhetoric and there is a reality. a rhetoric is that we are trying to foster a knowledge-based economy and so the new buzzword, the last two years the buzzword has been a knowledge-based economy in preparation for this. and a knowledge-based economy is great. it sounds very exciting and interesting and it doesn't, at least in the political system, and a fundamentally based economy, it is far from reality. the actual reality is that what qatar is trying
of the country and at least in its diplomacy is not a foreign policy. >> yes? >> okay, i will comment. >> all right, thank you so much. thank you for this interesting talk. with the presence of this in the energy industry, are we concerned that over the long-term we have sought diversity in the economy that we have become so dependent upon, particularly that of natural gas. and so much that it seems to be changing in the energy industry with unconditional sources of energy...
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every country has its geostrategic foreign policy. let's look at -- you talk about killing of muslims. actually, more muslims have died in pakistan from talibanÑi and ó qaeda strikes than they have from u.s. drone strikes despite the fact i opposeçó the strikes, let's look at who the real victims are and who the perpetrators are. so we're trying to complete this picture here bufó none of that - in fact, all of that will fallñr on deaf ears unless there's a social machinery to send out messages across the middle east. >> rose: what if somebody says look, you have have a good point but this is a war within islam. >> it's not our business. my question is why are we fighting on two different battlefields? maajid, if you go looking for him, you'd find him on "60 minutes". you're going to reach 20 million people there. that's a bigÑi impact. you'll find him on charlie rose, a bigñr audienceñr you'll find m on cbs news. but you'll find a ted talk but you don't really findÑi 80 maajd nawaz videos on youtube the way you find anwar al
every country has its geostrategic foreign policy. let's look at -- you talk about killing of muslims. actually, more muslims have died in pakistan from talibanÑi and ó qaeda strikes than they have from u.s. drone strikes despite the fact i opposeçó the strikes, let's look at who the real victims are and who the perpetrators are. so we're trying to complete this picture here bufó none of that - in fact, all of that will fallñr on deaf ears unless there's a social machinery to send out...
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policy and to i do think those considerations with foreign policy a lot less sober and people were campaigning in their own district or there on stage with him again groups to create policies to favor them they and the state's so reticent point* you have people who are directly elected so it creates the interesting dynamic that i think coolidge appreciated but never to my knowledge did he speak out against the income tax amendment but that was to have limited cover rent. >> i regret i did not go into pre--- prohibition because coup which believed although lower states like in massachusetts that wanted to ignore prohibition or create local laws he sat there were doing a disservice so while we know many members of his administration and drink many people think he died because he liked to drink3 many people think he died because he liked to drink but the way he deals with the problem is in overreach but his job was to enforce the law. he was campaigning in irish-american areas and people knew him in his early political career as more wet and dry but i think he would have agreed with the speech fr
policy and to i do think those considerations with foreign policy a lot less sober and people were campaigning in their own district or there on stage with him again groups to create policies to favor them they and the state's so reticent point* you have people who are directly elected so it creates the interesting dynamic that i think coolidge appreciated but never to my knowledge did he speak out against the income tax amendment but that was to have limited cover rent. >> i regret i did...
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and on foreign policy, they did not support the bush foreign policy, so the issues that made that republican party dominant, all three issues are in democratic favor. until you deal with these problems, it does not matter what network you have. economic conservatives and smaller government, less intrusion, and with they will have to figure out how to mollify the social movement. >> i do not think anyone has suggested the only thing that republicans are weighing right now are do we need better data bases and do we need more storefront offices. i was responding to a question directly about that. there is a lot of discussion going on right now about positioning, policies, looking for some of integrating new program pauses, how do we explain our policies better. i do not accept the premise that there is no doubt when you look at the gay marriage issue, that is very generational, it moved faster than any social issue i have ever seen. on the flip side, the pro-life argument has gained steam on the pro-life side of things. you can argue that taxpayers pay for contraceptives. the gay marriage issue
and on foreign policy, they did not support the bush foreign policy, so the issues that made that republican party dominant, all three issues are in democratic favor. until you deal with these problems, it does not matter what network you have. economic conservatives and smaller government, less intrusion, and with they will have to figure out how to mollify the social movement. >> i do not think anyone has suggested the only thing that republicans are weighing right now are do we need...
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i think the decisions that he has made on foreign policy with respect to the war on terror will be viewed as some point in the future as more courageous and less in that than they are currently. they're less favorable in the size of government not shrinking the government spending. the interests of cutting him, cutting spending, cutting the size of the government the congressman when we talk about this is a guy by the name of jeff who isn't very well known was a advocate of cutting the earmarks and john mccain is a good candidate with wide appeal and he wasn't conservative because he is pretty moderate on a lot of issues like on global warming legislation, immigration, so i think that in some ways -- thye support his immigration policy, so in some ways republicans need to return to the reagan years but they also need to be proactive and advocating policies that have independent appeal. islamic in our short discussion we talk about religion. what do you say to people that think republicans are fundamental christians that are out of touch in society? >> being a graduate student in religious
i think the decisions that he has made on foreign policy with respect to the war on terror will be viewed as some point in the future as more courageous and less in that than they are currently. they're less favorable in the size of government not shrinking the government spending. the interests of cutting him, cutting spending, cutting the size of the government the congressman when we talk about this is a guy by the name of jeff who isn't very well known was a advocate of cutting the earmarks...
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i mean the thing is it's what foreign policy you know i mean there's a debate to be had about the differences between george bush's war and george bush's wars and barack obama's wars but you know right or wrong george bush there was a certain kind of understanding this kind of purpose you know and it may have been weird and often wrong and destructive but there was this idea of like this is the purpose of american foreign policy or to make a rock believe you we want what we want them to believe we're going to make against them believe what we want them to believe here it's just kind of you're. just kind of stumbling from one place to another you know libya egypt syria with no kind of purpose no idea of what the strategic interest is and so it's kind of seen the same thing here because what is a benefit what's going to benefit america to send a bunch of cruise missiles to syria because of this chemical weapons use you know if you talk about a white wag the dog situation unfortunately we're in a we're in a period of american history where we don't need to wag the dog you know you have miley cyr
i mean the thing is it's what foreign policy you know i mean there's a debate to be had about the differences between george bush's war and george bush's wars and barack obama's wars but you know right or wrong george bush there was a certain kind of understanding this kind of purpose you know and it may have been weird and often wrong and destructive but there was this idea of like this is the purpose of american foreign policy or to make a rock believe you we want what we want them to believe...
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press in washington we have michael shank he is the director of foreign policy at the friends committee on national legislation and a professor at george mason university and in new york we crossed ed he is a associate editor at reason twenty four seventh's having cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want michael in watching if i go to you first. secretary kerry is absolutely convinced the assad regime has used chemical weapons against its people he doesn't give any proof but he's absolutely convinced and now we have the drumbeat to war i think i saw this movie and it has a very bad ending you know what i mean yes certainly we did the same in iraq we undermined u.n. inspectors there we're doing the same in syria we actually called on the inspectors in syria to abort their mission certainly paving the way for an easier strike on our end so we don't kill any u.n. inspectors but it's it's a little spurious to say that we have the evidence when the inspectors actually don't have the evidence so yeah we're seeing echoes like you mentioned in the intro this is a
press in washington we have michael shank he is the director of foreign policy at the friends committee on national legislation and a professor at george mason university and in new york we crossed ed he is a associate editor at reason twenty four seventh's having cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want michael in watching if i go to you first. secretary kerry is absolutely convinced the assad regime has used chemical weapons against its people he doesn't give...
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foreign policy in suggests that it looks at all like like subtle roads i think that last week i was in new york at the u.n. general assembly and a lot of people talked about the bush administration's overreach but now they're talking about the under reach from the obama administration and friend or foe they were looking for the united states to play a larger role why because minus united states there is less stability minus the what united states there's less than a national order so the united states has a responsibility and has a role to play internationally well a lot of people would say we've got a rodney is that the united states makes the world unstable in its unilateral actions around the world just the opposite. well we're only about two weeks ago from the american attempt to set off a third world war fortunately there was a bit of backbone coming from russia could i go into the mystic situation leaves are going to say go ahead that the the two unemployment is twenty three percent that's john williams shadows that's and it's double that for young people there's fifty million pe
foreign policy in suggests that it looks at all like like subtle roads i think that last week i was in new york at the u.n. general assembly and a lot of people talked about the bush administration's overreach but now they're talking about the under reach from the obama administration and friend or foe they were looking for the united states to play a larger role why because minus united states there is less stability minus the what united states there's less than a national order so the united...
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as one journalist told foreign policy magazine: you can't be a self-respecting war lord these days and not have your own television station. >> there are certain strongmen who buy a television station or set one up from scratch, a, because it's sort of a vanity project. they feel good that they have a television subject. they defend themselves. they believe if they come under attack from a government institution, from the attorney general's office, that they could defend themselves using this television station. >> in afghanistan, there is poverty and i will literacy. the benefit of having a t.v. station is to put across the aims and policies of their parties to their people through broadcast media. >> the stations collectively have about 2% of the market share in the country. so, in terms of followingnd in terms of audience shares, it's for the big, but they do have the ability to incite. so if you remember the burning of the koran by terri jones, the cleric in the u.s., that was repeatedly broadcast on one of the t.v. channels in afghanistan. and it did lead to some violent demonstra
as one journalist told foreign policy magazine: you can't be a self-respecting war lord these days and not have your own television station. >> there are certain strongmen who buy a television station or set one up from scratch, a, because it's sort of a vanity project. they feel good that they have a television subject. they defend themselves. they believe if they come under attack from a government institution, from the attorney general's office, that they could defend themselves using...
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foreign policy will be very illustrative of the way that u.s. foreign policy may be functioning today so on the outside we've got a lot of talk about human rights and democracy but behind closed doors and in these private cables it looks to be like a much more complicated and often darker situation will avoid london for critics accuse wiki leaks now of going soft for the kissinger cable saying that the dated records are much of a leak but is london based our contributor should return as he explains next the publication could have a major impact. these are incredibly relevant cables they weren't able to be searched and the mainstream media doesn't like what wiki leaks is doing which is dedicated as far as. anyone interested in journalism i think would say is the powerless against the powerful one doesn't have to doubt why the united states doesn't want these cables searchable because they detail very clearly a horrific time in us foreign policy these are stories that reverberate even today and if we do what we have to do is look at egypt for inst
foreign policy will be very illustrative of the way that u.s. foreign policy may be functioning today so on the outside we've got a lot of talk about human rights and democracy but behind closed doors and in these private cables it looks to be like a much more complicated and often darker situation will avoid london for critics accuse wiki leaks now of going soft for the kissinger cable saying that the dated records are much of a leak but is london based our contributor should return as he...
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so i'm confident that women and girls will remain a singular essential part of american foreign policy. >> while she was secretary, clinton teamed the state department up with the gallup organization. that to collect hard evidence of the impact of investing in women and girls. clinton hopes it will be a tool for making a persuasive argument for such investments in the future and valuable policy information. >> we have strong evidence that women play roles in all kinds of things, and in particular, in peace-keeping and conflict prevention. they raise issues in these kinds of negotiations, like human rights and human security. that are fundamental to forging a lasting and sustainable peace but we need more internationally comparable data to examine women's contributions affect conflict regions and only, then, can we really create 401(k)l0s for making sure they were included. >> secretary clinton logged nearly 1 million miles traveling to more than 100 countries, meeting with women and girls as part of her agenda whenever possible. >> that's good. very good. good for you. >> and she hoste
so i'm confident that women and girls will remain a singular essential part of american foreign policy. >> while she was secretary, clinton teamed the state department up with the gallup organization. that to collect hard evidence of the impact of investing in women and girls. clinton hopes it will be a tool for making a persuasive argument for such investments in the future and valuable policy information. >> we have strong evidence that women play roles in all kinds of things, and...
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policy. >> rose: i want to focus on foreign policy. so what is the challenge for the president in foreign policy? >> my discussions with him for the first book i did obama's wars and looking exactly how he makes decisions, it's very clear he does not like war, he has a deep aversion to war. his challenge in the next years is going to be convince people that even though he doesn't like war and he wants to avoid war, he will do it. he will use military force as necessary. the credibility of that threat needs to be very very high. >> rose: it shows that when we as historians look back, we never know what's going to come in these next couple years ahead. think about fdr, what maybe that he packed the cord and didn't do well but he became the leader of the allied forces even in 1940 before his third term and he mobilized the country for war and that's his huge legacy which we could never have guessed. world war ii breaks out. but i think the interesting thing about obama's first term on foreign policy was the one area where people thought h
policy. >> rose: i want to focus on foreign policy. so what is the challenge for the president in foreign policy? >> my discussions with him for the first book i did obama's wars and looking exactly how he makes decisions, it's very clear he does not like war, he has a deep aversion to war. his challenge in the next years is going to be convince people that even though he doesn't like war and he wants to avoid war, he will do it. he will use military force as necessary. the...
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foreign policy in suggests that it looks at all like like subtle roads i think that last week i was in new york at the u.n. general assembly and a lot of people talked about the bush administration's overreach but now they're talking about the under reach from the obama administration and friend or foe they were looking for the united states to play a larger role why because minus united states there is less stability minus the what united states there's less than a national order so the united...
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clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he brought to the right wing and abolishing the arms control and disarmed the agency. those we need in washington for the making of policy and he expanded nato you're taking the military and a that is a factor or not and bring more members to draw closer to russia and even bring in as george bush did the former hud republics of the soviet union into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about this and he lost his nerve on the things the country needed to do in terms of international agreements need to be a part of the accord and signed a comprehensive test ban tre
clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he...
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worst performance i've ever seen on foreign policy of any american president in your lifetime. >> the answer is five. >>> issue three. pontificating. >> last week, the g20, argentina, australia, brazil, canada, china, france, germ nene, independent knee, indonesia, japan, south korea, russia, saudi arabia, south africa, turkey, uk, united states, and the european union met in st. petersburg, russia. the meeting lasted for two days, september 5 and 6. a letter was dispatched to host vladimir putin, russia's president from another head of state. pope francis, head of vatican city, a civilian state, as well as the seat of roman catholicism. the pope weighed in on the conflict in syria, quote, to the leaders present, to each and everyone, i make a heart felt appeal to them to help find ways to overcome conflicting positions and lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution, unquote. pope francis has been notably vocal in his appeals for peace in syria. this past saturday, the pontiff held a prayer vigil for syria, where he appealed to world leaders for peace and reconciliation. thou
worst performance i've ever seen on foreign policy of any american president in your lifetime. >> the answer is five. >>> issue three. pontificating. >> last week, the g20, argentina, australia, brazil, canada, china, france, germ nene, independent knee, indonesia, japan, south korea, russia, saudi arabia, south africa, turkey, uk, united states, and the european union met in st. petersburg, russia. the meeting lasted for two days, september 5 and 6. a letter was dispatched...
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. >> how many of you think our foreign policy is getting weaker? how many don't? what's that? >> how many think when the muslim brotherhood took over in egypt and we gave them -- muslim brotherhood, a guy that once referred to the israelis as decemb descendents of apes and pigs, we gave him guns and military tanks. how many of you think what is my government doing? my commander in chief. how many think that is dumb? you don't think so? was that dumb? >> well, i think he was following the trend of a lot of presidents before him. >> oh, my gosh. >> yes, hello, can we talk about george bush and saddam hussein. i'm just saying -- >> sure. can i stop you for a second? george bush is a president -- >> honey. >> you calling me or her. >> i was talking to her. not you. >> george bush didn't give mohammed morsi tanks. he didn't give him f-16s and didn't give him $1.5 billion. a man who referred to our closest ally in the middle east as the descendents of apes and pigs. how do you justify that? >> -- a democracy if you're constantly giving them money. there's no incentive. >> let's be h
. >> how many of you think our foreign policy is getting weaker? how many don't? what's that? >> how many think when the muslim brotherhood took over in egypt and we gave them -- muslim brotherhood, a guy that once referred to the israelis as decemb descendents of apes and pigs, we gave him guns and military tanks. how many of you think what is my government doing? my commander in chief. how many think that is dumb? you don't think so? was that dumb? >> well, i think he was...
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foreign policy. they had the decisions one was how to deal with the bay of pigs invasion and 51. second was how to deal with the missile crisis in 1962. the difference between night and day that went very badly. the support never materialized and was a terrible ambassador for the country and around the world but kennedy took responsibility for it. the historians that studied kennedy and in mine own research i found this to be true he concluded after the first crisis that he was in a bubble in the white house because he was listening to much to the so-called experts in the military and the intelligence community. and he realized that these people had their own little bubble that they were in and at that time they were basically hawks like you may remember some of them. but then he realized that they couldn't pay attention to them as much as they had so he brought in the inner circle at the cuban missile crisis he found his own judgment in he was skeptical and felt they led them astray before and the c
foreign policy. they had the decisions one was how to deal with the bay of pigs invasion and 51. second was how to deal with the missile crisis in 1962. the difference between night and day that went very badly. the support never materialized and was a terrible ambassador for the country and around the world but kennedy took responsibility for it. the historians that studied kennedy and in mine own research i found this to be true he concluded after the first crisis that he was in a bubble in...
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they're making a mockery of the united states foreign policy. i'm sure every day they're extracting more and more information from this man. at the same time, it's a test of our foreign policy, our diplomacy, and i would give the administration low marks for what they've done so far. i think the irony here, this is a man who's a defender of freedom supposedly, and yet he's running for cover in countries in the world that oppress freedom, whether it's china, russia, now he's talking about going to venezuela. i think this is a -- you know, i think the administration could be doing more. >> chris: let me ask you directly. what should the president do to make it clear to the russians that we don't want give him safe haven? it's a complicated relationship between the u.s. and russia. how far should we be willing to go in putting overall registrationrelationson the linn case? >> economic, trade, the restart button with putin was a mistake. clearly it's not working in the case, because we have no diplomacy leverage over russia. they're thumbing their n
they're making a mockery of the united states foreign policy. i'm sure every day they're extracting more and more information from this man. at the same time, it's a test of our foreign policy, our diplomacy, and i would give the administration low marks for what they've done so far. i think the irony here, this is a man who's a defender of freedom supposedly, and yet he's running for cover in countries in the world that oppress freedom, whether it's china, russia, now he's talking about going...
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about the subjects that are in the book for foreign policy. [applause] >> thank you steve. you instrumental to make this project have been. also oxford university press that published the book and also to my:editor catherine and the people here at the foundation also jonathan who helped to make the book possible. the reason it was necessary storming off the stage from 1970's of the insurgent movement is important yet at the same time that is less well understood. and we had the great bull of on the taliban but we wanted to focus how did they develop after 9/11? we have one dozen chapters in the book and those on stage you contributed in those two writing a book that chapter with the taliban insurgency as it relates to the condo tarry taliban without movement to negotiate with the afghan government were not followed up. also the professor at national defence university and at columbia and that a high ranking pakistan a police official that now has the political scene when the political ecosystem that the pact is danny taliban chance when becaus
about the subjects that are in the book for foreign policy. [applause] >> thank you steve. you instrumental to make this project have been. also oxford university press that published the book and also to my:editor catherine and the people here at the foundation also jonathan who helped to make the book possible. the reason it was necessary storming off the stage from 1970's of the insurgent movement is important yet at the same time that is less well understood. and we had the great bull...